Ampeg Gemini IV

My amp differs from those previous reviews. Mine has two 6L6s, and that may change the nature of the beast. It has a 15 inch Jenson. And mine is loud. I have not seen the wattage rated, but mine sounds much louder than the 20 watts described above. It is as loud in my ears as my 40 BF super reverb. Controls: Intensity and Speed for trem, Volume, treb (with bright), bass. There are four imputs. I've noticed a little more brightness and breakup in the accordian input.

So far I've played a G&L strat with maple neck and an American Tele with rosewood. Both sounded good. My amp stays relatively clean until you get to 2 o'clock on the dial, then it begins to break up nicely. And when you push it full throtle it has a real nice grit which reminds me of a black-brown face fender amp. The trem is great. The reverb is very nice, and I roll it back, because it can get very splashy. My amp is not noisy with the single coils as are the other two amps reviewed. Again, they built my amp with 6L6s, and with the bright switch on, it is very warm like a BF twin.

It is difficult for me to say? I've never gigged with it, and I just bought it from a friend of mine. It appears to be in great shape, so I suppose you could say it had to be pretty reliable. In fact, mine looks like it came out of a musseum.

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I have some great amps. Between me and my kids we have a BF super, a BF bassman with small box 2-12, a hotrod deluxe. I have one of the best sounding 2-6L6 white pinwal Musicman RD112 100 watt amps. And I've had many other amps through the years. This amp is a great sounding amp that sounds great clean or overdriven. I just love reverb and trem, so that biases my opinion. I was shocked at how much difference it makes when you click on the bright. This amp is darker than the super, and so when you click the bright, in my ears it sounds just right, and not brittle at all.

I bought this amp in 1971 and it was pretty well worn back then so I would guess it was produced in the early to mid sixties. I have yet to find a web site to provide me with dating and history info. Any suggestions are welcome. I don't think it has more than 20 watts but that is plenty to drive the single fifteen inch speaker which is capable of producing a suprisingly bright sound when the treble is clicked past 10 to "bright". It's quite heavy, perhaps seventy-five or eighty pounds and the face is angled up slightly, though tilt-back legs would be nice. It has a funky "accordian" jack next to the one for guitar. I can't tell the difference, but it's kind of cute.

When the volume is cranked, the low wattage of this amp is plenty to fill the small clubs I play with a nice, fat bluesy tone. With a re-issue Tubescreamer even lower volumes are warm enough to bathe in. I play a late model American Strat and a home-grown hybrid I built from a late sixties solid body, triple pickup Hagstrom that I fitted with a p.a.f. mini Hummer at the neck, a pre-C.B.S. Strat in the middle, and a mini Hummer from an early Gibson Firebird at the bridge. Actually quit wicked and I get a lot of looks. The amp does buzz a bit with the single coil pickups, but don't they all.

The reverb, which, by the way is one of the best sounding I've heard, has quit a couple of times and the tubes are a bit rare, but for a fourty year old amp it's never let me down. Doubt that it will.

I've had it in the shop for reverb and tubes a couple of time but it was fairly painless. I've never dealt with Ampeg directly.

I also have a Music Man 210 sixty-five combo. It's too clean at high volume to use without an overdrive pedel. If my Ampeg were stolen I don't think I COULD replace it. In fact mine is the only one I've ever seen, though one of the premear guitar slingers here in Portland, Ore. got down on his knees and bowed to it when I showed up at a jam with this bad boy!

According to the serial number this one was made in '66. Great amp for blues and even jazz. Guitar and "Accordion" inputs. Tremelo and "Echo." I just got it and haven't had a chance to use it on stage. Obscure 7591 and 7199 tubes, hard to find.

There is quite a bit of hiss out of mine. Great breakup when volume is turned past 7. Great clean as well.

This one shocks the hell out of me when I touch lips to mic. I'm currently trying to work that out with grounding, etc. Like any old tube amp, you must treat it like a baby when it comes to care.

Great amp. The tremelo is one of the best I have heard. The reverb is killer as well. I highly reccommend one of these if you like warm tone, as well as quality overdrive.